2 shot dead in Philly by store owner, police

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police in Philadelphia say two men have been shot and killed, one by a store owner and the other by officers who came to the aid of a woman who had been shot.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://bit.ly/QeRXxI ) says officers found a wounded man at a corner store in the Fairhill section of north Philadelphia shortly before 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, and he later died at a hospital. Chief Inspector Scott Small says the man demand money and then kicked in a security door, and the owner shot him.

Shortly after 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Small said, officers found a 36-year-old woman bleeding on a northeast Philadelphia sidewalk. Small says a man in a doorway pointed a gun at them, and three officers fired, killing him. The woman was in stable condition.